Estimation of nonlinear trends in water quality: An improved approach using generalized additive models

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Morton, Richard ^a   Henderson, Brent L ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; WATER QUALITY;

BIOLOGICAL WATER; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FIRST ORDERS; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODELS; KENDALL'S; ROBUST REGRESSIONS; SEASONAL EFFECTS; SERIALLY CORRELATED ERRORS;

HYDRAULIC MODELS;

AUTOCORRELATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; STREAMFLOW; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 53649094165     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006191     Document Type: Article

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